UK confirms £1.1bn plan to back British AI chips and compute
Liz Kendall has unveiled a £1.1bn AI Hardware Plan: a £750m national supercomputer, advance chip purchases and a record British Business Bank fund to secure UK AI sovereignty.
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The latest AI developments shaping UK business and technology
Fifa expands AI abuse filtering for World Cup players
Fifa will offer AI moderation free to all associations at the 2026 World Cup to hide abusive posts from players, as betting and US scale raise the risk.
Police told to pause AI use in court statements
England and Wales forces have been told to halt AI use in court statements until safeguards are met, after fears inaccurate outputs could taint trials.
AI could collapse the welfare state, minister warns
Treasury minister Darren Jones warns the UK benefits bill could become unaffordable within a decade if AI puts millions out of work and concentrates wealth.
Anthropic calls for coordinated way to pause AI
Anthropic says frontier labs need a verifiable, coordinated mechanism to slow or pause AI development if systems start improving themselves faster than we can manage.
Cambridge trials 'world-first' AI-designed vaccine
Cambridge researchers have trialled in humans a vaccine whose key component was designed entirely by AI, aiming to protect against whole families of coronaviruses.
NatWest deploys AI across trade finance operations
NatWest is automating document checks and money-laundering screening in trade finance with Cleareye.ai, as the FCA pushes banks to test AI in real conditions.
Stocks slide as AI chip rally runs out of steam
Tech shares sold off across Asia as a Broadcom-led chip slump deepened, with South Korea's Kospi falling up to 7% and the AI-bubble narrative hardening.